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Orrick Hires Ex-Chair Of Paul Hastings' Palo Alto Office
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced on Tuesday that it has hired the former chair of Paul Hastings LLP's Palo Alto office.
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Blackstone Vet Joins Davis Polk Investment Practice
A former senior in-house counsel at Blackstone Credit & Insurance joined Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP as a partner after more than a dozen years with the credit investor, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Stanford Tech Lab Partners With Cleary, Davis Wright, Vorys
Stanford Law School on Monday announced the official launch of its Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab, whose advisory board founding members include law firms and an artificial intelligence company.
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Cadwalader Hires Trans-Atlantic Katten Private Wealth Partner
An international private wealth partner from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has jumped to Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP as a partner in the firm's London and New York offices, Cadwalader announced Tuesday.
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Summer Associates Remain On The Fence About AI In Law
Most summer associates used generative artificial intelligence tools at their firms this year, but views on adoption were mixed. Students told Law360 Pulse the tools were useful for research and drafting, but voiced concerns over reliability, job loss and diminished writing skills.
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These Firms Were The Top For Their Summer Associates
Working as a summer associate is a rite of passage for many law students, and these training programs can boost aspiring attorneys' confidence in their career paths. Find out what students valued most and how they rated those experiences in a new survey from Law360 Pulse.
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What Summer Associates Learned From Working At Firms
We asked this year's cohort about the most valuable lessons they learned during their summer associateship. Here's the advice they shared for those ready to jump into law firm life.
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Sotomayor Warns Civics Undereducation Leads To Bad Laws
Those looking to change the nation's laws first need to understand how they work and why they are in place, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a packed auditorium at New York Law School on Tuesday.
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HHS OIG Senior Counsel Joins Polsinelli As Shareholder
A former senior counsel in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, who spent more than a decade in private practice before his most-recent six years in public service, has joined Polsinelli PC.
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USPTO Regional Director Joins Holland & Hart In Denver
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's former regional director in the Rocky Mountains has joined Holland & Hart LLP as of counsel, the firm announced Monday.
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BakerHostetler Manager Joins Troutman As AI Director
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP said Monday that it has hired a senior manager of legal tech consulting at BakerHostetler to fill a new post of director of artificial intelligence and automation.
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Reed Smith Names Department And Practice Group Leaders
Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that it has made changes to its department and practice group leadership, including the appointment of attorneys to lead its U.S. global commercial disputes practice group and co-lead its global litigation and dispute resolution department.
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Law Firms Embrace AI, But Full Deployment Remains Rare
Most law firms are currently using generative artificial intelligence tools, but a new survey with responses from hundreds of legal technology leaders has found that most adoption is occurring through pilots rather than firm-wide deployment.
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K&L Gates Grows Public Policy Practice With NOAA Leader
An expert on fisheries and maritime issues has left the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after more than 20 years and joined K&L Gates LLP's Washington, D.C., office.
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Cooley Welcomes New York SEC Enforcement Leader Home
An associate regional director for the New York office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rejoined Cooley LLP as a core member of the firm's SEC enforcement practice.
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Weil Adds 2 Acclaimed Trial Attys From Paul Hastings
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced on Monday that it has welcomed two prominent West Coast litigators from Paul Hastings LLP, highlighting their extensive experience in headline-grabbing cases.
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Former Nuclear Commission GC Joins Morgan Lewis In DC
The former general counsel of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who spent nearly her entire career there in roles at the intersection of nuclear law and policy, has joined Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Washington, D.C., office, the firm said Monday.
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Paul Weiss Lands A&O Shearman Antitrust Trio In DC
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced Monday that it has added three antitrust attorneys from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, including the leader of its global antitrust practice, to strengthen its ability to provide antitrust counseling to clients and advise them about merger control matters, investigations and litigation.
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Ex-Epstein Prosecutor Maurene Comey Sues DOJ Over Firing
Maurene Comey, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who brought high-profile criminal cases against the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean "Diddy" Combs, sued the Justice Department on Monday alleging her abrupt July firing came "solely or substantially" because she is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, a Trump critic.
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Neal & Leroy Taps Kirkland Atty To Lead Corporate Team
Chicago-based boutique law firm Neal & Leroy LLC has found the chair of its corporate department from Kirkland & Ellis LLP and added a new intellectual property attorney from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
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Simpson Thacher Adds Ex-Goodwin Debt Financing Pro
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has added an attorney previously with Goodwin Procter LLP who specializes in debt financing transactions as a partner in its Boston office, the firm has announced.
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4 More Cadwalader Attys Exit In Charlotte, Head to Proskauer
Proskauer Rose LLP announced Monday that it will launch an office in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a four-partner leveraged finance team from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP.
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HSF Kramer Eyes AI To Speed US Growth After Merger
Just over 100 days since it was created, HSF Kramer says the transatlantic merger is helping to boost its market share in the U.S. Here, the chair and senior partner of the firm talks to Law360 about investing in artificial intelligence as its use expands in the legal industry.
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Paul Hastings Adds Goodwin Private Equity Partner In Boston
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has expanded its global private equity practice and Boston team with a longtime Goodwin Procter LLP partner.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kaplan Martin LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit upheld an $83.3 million award against President Donald Trump for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 in the wake of her sexual assault allegations, rejecting his claims of presidential immunity.
Expert Analysis
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ChatGPT Is A Cool Trick, But AI Won't Replace Lawyers
Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.
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Pro Bono Work Is Valuable In IP And Continued Learning
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.
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Increasing Public Access To Legal Services: A Practical Plan
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
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Priorities For Improving The Legal Industry In Texas
To assist Texas lawyers in effectively executing their duties, we should be working on succession planning, attorney wellness, and increasing understanding of the grievance system by both bar members and the public, says Laura Gibson, president of the State Bar of Texas.
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Leading Your Law Firm's Creation Of A New Practice Group
Marjorie Peerce and Peter Jaslow at Ballard Spahr discuss the challenges of building a new law firm practice group from the ground up, and how sustained commitment, communication and collaboration are the key ingredients for success.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?
Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
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10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Incorporating ADA Guidance Into Lawyer Wellness Movement
The Americans with Disabilities Act and rules of professional conduct may help the legal profession promote lawyer well-being by focusing on mental conditions' actual impact, rather than on associated stereotypes, says Alex Long at the University of Tennessee College of Law.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can New Partners Generate Business?
Christine Wong at MoFo discusses how newly elected partners can prioritize business development by creating a strategic plan with the firm's marketing team and strengthening relationships with professional and personal networks.
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9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term
Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.
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What Web3 Means For Lawyers' Ethical Duties
As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
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NY's Cybersecurity CLE Rule Is A Sign Of Changing Times
New York's recently announced requirement that lawyers complete cybersecurity training as part of their continuing legal education is a reminder that securing client information is more complicated in an increasingly digital world, and that expectations around attorneys' technology competence are changing, says Jason Schwent at Clark Hill.
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Opinion
Law Firms Stressing Work-Life Balance Are Missing The Mark
Law firms struggling to attract and retain lawyers are institutionalizing work-life balance through hybrid work models, but such balance is elusive in a client services and tech-dependent world, underscoring the need for firms to instead aim for attorney empowerment and true balance within — not outside — the workplace, says Joe Pack at Pack Law.
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A Law Student's Guide To Thriving As A Summer Associate
Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.